A vitamin is an organic molecule (or a set of molecules alongside joined chemically, i.e. vitamers) that is an indispensable micronutrient which an organism needs in little quantities for the proper committed of its metabolism. valuable nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism, either at every or not in ample quantities, and as a result must be obtained through the diet. Vitamin C can be synthesized by some species but not by others; it is not a vitamin in the first instance but is in the second. The term vitamin does not include the three further groups of valuable nutrients: minerals, essential fatty acids, and critical amino acids. Most vitamins are not single molecules, but groups of related molecules called vitamers. For example, there are eight vitamers of vitamin E: four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Some sources list fourteen vitamins, by including choline, but major health organizations list thirteen: vitamin A (as all-trans-retinol, all-trans-retinyl-esters, as ca...